Diabetes Epidemic & You

by Joseph R. Kraft

Revised 04/2011

DIABETES EPIDEMIC and YOU is not a cliché! It is a mandate for the awakening of the "silent" millions worldwide with "normal" fasting blood sugars and undiagnosed diabetes. If you have a "normal" fasting blood sugar, YOU may be one of the undiagnosed millions. YES, I do mean YOU.

Since Hippocrates' time, earliest diagnosis provided the greatest opportunity for treatment and cure. This book highlights the earliest identification of type 2 diabetes by utilizing the insulin assay with the oral glucose tolerance.

My cumulative experience of 14,384 oral glucose tolerances with insulin assays established the earliest diagnosis of prediabetes and diabetes when the blood sugars were normal. Prediabetes is type 2 diabetes. The tolerances were separated according to age groups, from 3Ð13 years to 81Ð90+ years. Each group was further divided into normal glucose tolerances, impaired glucose tolerances, and diabetes mellitus glucose tolerances. YOU, upon testing by oral glucose tolerance, will be in one of these categories.

This resource of oral glucose tolerance with insulin assay is unequaled in world medical literature. The importance of early diagnosis is that the clinical pathology of diabetes – mainly heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, cataracts, erectile dysfunction, and other metabolic disorders – occurs not only in those with advanced diabetes, but also in those with "normal" blood sugars.

YES, this could happen to YOU! When early diagnosis is coupled with specific therapy, the DIABETES EPIDEMIC will be arrested and then reversed. Early diagnosis is the goal of this book – beginning with YOU.

Genres: Health, Science, Nutrition, Medical

153 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 7, 2008

Reviews

[Michael J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr Kraft discovered something that most Drs. take for granted when they draw blood:

You can have NORMAL glucose levels but extremely HIGH and PERSISTENT levels of Insulin at the same time. He developed the Insulin assay...aka the Kraft test to measure this.

Please read this book...even if you are considered healthy...then take a look at the epidemic of "diobesity" growing around the world and you'll see where we are headed and what needs to change.

[Abu Dhabi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The good: Identifying the problem (hyperinsulinemia) as the underlying cause of a whole host of health ills, and advocating for the use of blood tests that accurately measure said problem (as opposed to those that only detect the worst cases).

The bad: Advising insulin therapy for type 2 diabetics (they already had far too much!), and relying on poor lifestyle intervention tactics (standard pyramid low-fat diet, exercise) to solve the problem while we figure out some sort of pill that makes the problem go away.

[Christelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the book. It sheds light on a very important topic that is not common knowledge yet.
My only concern would be the date of publication and studies listed that are over 10 years old. Maybe an upgraded version of the book with newer references or time related changes could be useful.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fearmongering and state mandated orthodoxy in a case where most data is speculation or correlation.

[Uroš Mikolič · Rating 3 out of 5]

The insulin resistance part is ingenious, but the dieatry guidelines for managment are heavily flawed.

[Anthony Poselenzny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every one should read this book

Every one should hit a copy to their doctor. We should all work hard, eat right, and get much healthier. My eyes were opened by this simple book.

[Kathleen O'Connell-Sundaram · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative

Dietary recommendations don't include LCHF etc. But the diagnostic information is excellent. Insulin resistance and complications can happen at any age.